75 Extraordinary Uses for Baking Soda

Baking soda is a chemical compound that appears as a fine powder. It releases bubbles of carbon dioxide when it interacts with an acid and a liquid. Itís most commonly used in baking, where it acts as a leavening agent. The following are 75 other uses for baking soda aside from making muffins soft and fluffy.

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6. I don't use my dishwasher because I can smell the residue of the strong detergent

on the dishes. I looked up homemade dishwasher detergent and found 'recipes' that say to use 1 tablespoon borax (20 Mule team borax in the laundry aisle of the grocery store) to 1 tablespoon of baking soda. I haven't tried it yet, but have Borax on my shopping list. If a film remains on glasses, add vinegar or citric acid which is sold for canning.

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and vinegar. Either together or separately, they're my favorite "natural" cleaners.

Baking soda is awesome for cleaning grease. I use it with dish detergent to get tomato sauce stains out of plastic. Doesn't get them out 100%, but way better than dish detergent alone.

Also...a bit of baking soda on a damp sponge with a drop of dish detergent gets coffee stains from cups and a glass coffee pot.

One other thing people probably didn't know, not about baking soda, but about vegetable or olive oil. My range hood gets extremely greasy, and attracts dust. It's nearly impossible to clean with conventional cleaners. The only thing that removes it is olive/vegetable oil on a rag or paper towel. When the dirt and oil are gone, then I go over the area with another cleaner to finish up.